2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 5

Respiratory Health

During the past 3 months, did you cough up phlegm [FLEM] or mucus on most days?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,763 633 16.1 14.6-17.7 3,130 83.9 82.3-85.4
Medicaid Region 5 670 126 17.7 14.5-21.4 544 82.3 78.6-85.5
GENDER
Male 296 58 17.5 13.1-23.0 238 82.5 77.0-86.9
Female 374 68 17.8 13.5-23.1 306 82.2 76.9-86.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 402 84 18.9 15.0-23.5 318 81.1 76.5-85.0
Non-Hispanic Black 139 26 16.7 10.7-25.1 113 83.3 74.9-89.3
Other 129 16 14.5 7.2-27.0 113 85.5 73.0-92.8
AGE
18-44 210 31 15.0 10.3-21.3 179 85.0 78.7-89.7
45-64 235 46 20.1 14.5-27.3 189 79.9 72.7-85.5
65+ 214 48 19.4 14.2-26.0 166 80.6 74.0-85.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 257 63 22.5 16.9-29.3 194 77.5 70.7-83.1
Some Post-H.S. 212 37 15.6 10.9-21.8 175 84.4 78.2-89.1
College Graduate 200 25 11.4 7.5-17.1 175 88.6 82.9-92.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 353 78 21.5 16.8-27.2 275 78.5 72.8-83.2
$50,000+ 203 26 13.7 8.9-20.4 177 86.3 79.6-91.1
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 114 22 14.2 8.8-22.2 92 85.8 77.8-91.2

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2018 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2018 Annual Results Technical Notes for more details.

^Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).
Percentages are weighted to population characteristics and therefore cannot be calculated exactly from the numbers in this table.

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